"One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice."

-- Claude Monet

#Light Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.”

Source : Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.”
“When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.”
“I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.”
“If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.”
“Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1991). “Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, Small PressDistribution

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